Category: Sitecore

What is the Shard Map Manager Tool The Sitecore 9 SQL Shard Map Manager sharding deployment tool is designed to create your initial sharded environment that houses raw xConnect data. It’s not intended for rebalancing or reconfiguration of an environment with data. You would need to perform manual steps to reconfigure your environment. The SQL …

If you are using Redis for your Sitecore 9 Private SessionState Provider on Content Delivery Servers and follow the Sitecore documentation for Update 1 located at: https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up_and_maintaining/session_state/session_state/walkthrough_configuring_a_private_session_state_database_using_the_redis_provider, you are likely to experience the following error: StackExchange.Redis.RedisConnectionException: No connection is available to service this operation: EVAL This is because Sitecore’s documentation for the Web.config changes are …

If you have installed Sitecore 9 and attempt to pull up a Sitecore site only to find the following error: “HTTP Error 500.21 – Internal Server Error… bad module “ManagedPipelineHandler” in its module list”, it may because you are missing ASP .NET 4.6 (Sitecore 9 requires 4.6 or 4.7. Please see SIF Prerequisites for more): To remedy this …

Sitecore 9 brings a heavy paradigm with certificates and intra-machine communication when you decide to implement a scaled XP1 environment. You could have separate servers for each Sitecore role, or an architecture that has xConnect on one Server… CMS, Processing, and Reporting on another… and your CDS(s) serving public traffic. As you need to ensure communication between …

Unweaving the Client Certificates required for an XP1 scaled implementation can be a bit of a challenge, as there are several undocumented steps that need to be undertaken. Often, many will export and import the correct certificates, update connectionStrings to use the proper ThumbPrints, but not update the SSL Settings for the IIS xConnect sites …

If you are using SIF Version 1.1.0 to generate Self-Signed Certificates and need to export these to other machines as part of a scaled environment, you may find that you are unable to export the Private Keys along with the certificate. In fact, the option to export is grayed out: SIF Version 1.1.0 Created Certificate: …

If you deploy xConnect using the SIF Framework, you will notice a JSON Parameter named “XConnectEnvrionment” with a description of “The configuration environment for this instance” containing a default value of “Development”. “XConnectEnvironment”: { “Type”: “string”, “DefaultValue”: “Development”, “Description”: “The configuration environment for this instance.” }, So, what is the purpose of …

Sitecore has updated the Sitecore 9 SIF to Version 1.2.0. New features include Tasks for allowing “enabling, disabling and deleting configurations by reading an IO xml file (*.ioxml)” and transforming “XML documents by applying XML Document Transformation (xdt) files”. Resolved bugs includes resolution of the “certificate private key path on Windows 8.1/2012” and corrections to input hash …

If you are following the Sitecore 9 Update 1 Installation Guide, you may note that the prerequisites for SIF can lead to failures with SQL Communication if you are installing a scaled Sitecore environment (ex. SQL is installed on one server, while your Sitecore roles are installed on separate servers). You may not experience issues if you …